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    Resources: research programs on moisture in building envelope

    Building Envelope Team

    NRC/IRC, Canada

    Consortium for Moisture Management for Exterior Wall Systems- "The objective of this project is to develop guidelines for moisture management strategies for wall systems to meet user requirements of long-term performance and durability for the wide range of climate zones across North America."

    IRC/NRC use of LATENITE program in the "Consortium for Moisture Management for Exterior Wall Systems ", backed up by a leading laboratory for measuring material properties

    BRI of Japan:

    Lund University:

    "moisture design - risk analysis - climatic data for moisture calculation: The objective is to find the critical outer climate for different types of constructions and different locations in Sweden."

    CSTB in France

    Building Thermal Envelope Systems & Materials Program

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory:

    development of the "Applied moisture engineering" concept, also use LATENITE program, with a large climatic simulator (4m by 4m for roof panels) [This link was checked on Dec. 2006ORNL (www.ornl.gov/roofs+walls/)]

    VTT Building Technology/Finland: advanced research on others such as vapor barrier.

    This link was broken when checked on Dec. 2006Laboratory of Building Physics, Leuven, Belgium.

    "...involved in research and educational activities in the field of heat and mass transfer in building materials, building parts and buildings, the energy use in buildings, building installations and building acoustics." Professor Hugo Hens is the head.



    Web Links (2): Notes
      This link was broken when checked on Dec. 2006Laboratory of Building Physics, Leuven, Belgium
      "...research and educational activities in the field of heat and mass transfer in building materials, building parts and buildings, the energy use in buildings, building installations and building acoustics. Also research in urban physics is part of our activities.

      This link was checked on Dec. 2006ORNL -- Building Envelopes Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
      "building envelope research, which focuses on the structural elements that enclose a building (walls, roofs and foundations), and materials research, which concentrates on the materials within the envelope systems (such as insulation)."

    Related References (3)
    LATENIGHT
    Inquiry on HAMCAT codes, by Hens, H. and Janssens, A., 1993
    Lund University program on moisture climate data
    Moisture conditions at the outer surface of constructions with negligible heat and moisture capacity, by Harderup, E., 1995
    FPL-USDA program
    Moisture management in buildings, by TenWolde, A., 1999


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